America is supposed to be a christian nation, ALL of our founding fathers were christians. If not, why would use God in the constitution? Godlessness is why people are killing each other.Why can't people just obey?
Accept christ.
2006-12-26 11:01:27 · 41 answers · asked by WWJD 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You can have prayer in school. No one can stop you from praying anywhere. Your teacher just can't teach it. Our nation was built with the essence of Christianity but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation of freedom, of religion. The government has not established a national religion which was the reason for separation from church and state.
As far as schools go, I hear now they are suspending children for praying over lunch and taking away Bibles that are being read during free time. I think that is unconstitutional.
The First Amendment does not say "separation of church and state" It says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"...etc. So you can pray where ever in anyway you want.
2006-12-26 11:09:04 · answer #1 · answered by BrutalBaby 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let me start abovo... I think you asked a great question but all that extra fluff you added kind of gave it the wrong spin. I did great in school and graduated Saludatorian of my class, but still feel a bit of bitterness now (while in my 20's) for not being brought up on the Bible..that somewhere along the line someone failed me..namely my country and my parents and the education system..that I had to find it myself and consider myself about 20 years behind where I could be on eternal intelligence if I had been raised on the truth. Christopher Columbus was a Christian...that is how he found America! He was reading the Bible and it said that there were pathways in the seas and that the earth was round so that is why he set out on his journey--by faith--he just trusted God! We might just have to wait for the Millenium to roll around before we see justice my friend, which is right around the corner if you know your parables (namely Matthew 24 and that of the fig tree [Israel]). I know by the statistics that our society has declined drastically since we took the Bible out of the school systems... suicide has skyrocketed, divorce has gone up, teen pregnancy has gone up, test scores have plummeted, the drop out rate gone up, drug use way way up, and on and on and on...just look at the charts it's sad what is happening, but we are not going to get it back. Start a ministry if you have to. That is what I am going to do with levelart.us my new website...somehow bring back the rainbow to God and reassociate it with him instead of the Gay community, which is my pet peeve btw... they stole God's rainbow and I am going to get it back! God Bless ya!
PS--
[1]"America is supposed to be a christian nation, ALL of our founding fathers were christians."
--needs examples because otherwise it just pisses people off as you can see by the responses.
[2]"If not, why would use God in the constitution? Godlessness is why people are killing each other.
--Confusing and bad sentance structure
[3]"Why can't people just obey?"
--should be separate question
2006-12-28 13:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by lovel art 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our country is not falling apart as a result of godlessness. I was raised a Unitarian Universalist, do not believe in any god or goddess, and have a 4.0 grade point average with 3 advanced classes. We do not pray in school because, as some fail to realize, not everyone in America believes in the same deity/deities. We are the Great American Melting Pot. To implement one kind prayer into schooling would be an insult.
2006-12-28 11:20:47 · answer #3 · answered by dumbbirdmoe 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church agrees with the U.S. Constitution as currently interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court and does not support "structured" prayer in public schools.
In the Vatican II document, Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae (Human Dignity), the Church states:
The human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.
Children will continue to privately pray before tests just like they always have.
With love in Christ.
2006-12-27 17:33:45 · answer #4 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
America is about freedom, not religion. We have freedom to choose to worship whatever religion we want. It would be contradictory to the constitution if we were to force everyone to believe a certain religion. It's one of our rights as a citizen of this country to freedom of religion. And if people killing one another is one of your fears, forcing everyone to belong to a certain religion would cause riots, maybe even another civil war. How would you feel if suddenly the government said that you had to follow the Jewish religion? And no America is not supposed to be a christian nation. This whole thing is ridiculous.
2006-12-26 11:08:09 · answer #5 · answered by MCRlover12 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All the founding fathers were not Christian. Many were Deist. They specifically did not want a mixing of church and state, and they said so.
The school is state. Church doesn't belong anywhere near it.
They wanted freedom of religion. If your nation were meant to be Christian only, you would not be a Democracy. You'd be run by the church.
2006-12-26 11:07:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My school is an part of a mosque. So we go thier daily to pray to god. We are muslims by the way. We pray toward the Qibla, which is at the KAaba in Mecca, Saudia Arabia. Just like one of the answerers above, we respect Jesus very much as a messenger of god. We also wear the Hijab to respect his mother MAry.
2006-12-26 11:06:43 · answer #7 · answered by Husain B. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Establishment clause seems to belie your argument. American has a lot of Christians in it, but there is no state religion.
Since there is no state religion, who is to say what sort of prayers should be mandated in public schools? Parents may not want their children indoctrinated in a religion not of their choosing, especially when they are the taxpayers paying for the public education.
Perhaps it would be better to not mandate prayer in school and allow parents the right to raise their children (or not) in a religion of their choosing. That is what church is for.
2006-12-26 11:12:43 · answer #8 · answered by saopaco 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not all of our founders were Christians. Washington, for example, was a Deist. God is not in the Constitution.
I don't object to my religion's prayers in the schools, but I wouldn't want my children subjected to Christian prayers at school.
2006-12-26 11:09:47 · answer #9 · answered by sudonym x 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thumbs down notwithstanding, Raven is right in a way.
Who decides *who's* prayers are to be used? Shall we pray like Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims or Hindus? Prayer takes many forms, and it would be wrong to force *all* children to pray the words of a single faith's creed.
Kids can pray in school all they want.
Schools cannot *make* kids pray.
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2006-12-26 11:09:08 · answer #10 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋